Year-End Lists

Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Best Albums of 2025. The full list of 99 albums is available to his newsletter subscribers.

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2017]

1. Antidepressants
   Suede
2. Snipe Hunter
   Tyler Childers
3. The Price of Admission
   Turnpike Troubadours
4. More
   Pulp
5. Man's Best Friend
   Sabrina Carpenter
6. Lonesome Drifter
   Charley Crockett
6. Dollar a Day
   Charley Crockett
7. Period
   Kesha
8. Workin' Man: Willie Sings Merle
   Willie Nelson
9. Send a Prayer My Way
   Julien Baker & Torres
10. Ripped and Torn
    Lifeguard
11. Possession
    Ty Segall
12. Moisturizer
    Wet Leg
13. If You Asked for a Picture
    Blondshell
14. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
    Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory
15. Double Infinity
    Big Thief
16. Instant Holograms on Metal Film
    Stereolab
17. Life, Death and Dennis Hopper
    The Waterboys
18. Bite Me
    Reneé Rapp
19. Only Frozen Sky Anyway
    Jonathan Richman
20. Apple Cores
    James Brandon Lewis
21. Saving Grace
    Robert Plant with Suzi Dian
22. Based on the Best Seller
    Sloan
23. All Hat
    Joshua Hedley
24. Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party
    Hayley Williams
25. Consentrik Quartet
    Nels Cline
26. International
    Saint Etienne
27. Forever
    Lilly Hiatt
28. Black Sky Over the Projects: Apartment 2025
    Public Enemy
29. Burnover
    Greg Freeman
30. Hard Headed Woman
    Margo Price
31. Find El Dorado
    Paul Weller
32. Sad and Beautiful World
    Mavis Staples
33. Bleeds
    Wednesday
34. Map of a Blue City
    Marc Ribot
35. Mayhem
    Lady Gaga
36. Snocaps
    Snocaps
37. Mortal Primetime
    Sunflower Bean
38. Oar On, Penelope!
    The Minus 5
39. Evangeline vs. the Machine
    Eric Church
40. The Hives Forever Forever the Hives
    The Hives